Is Miami Ready to Face THEIR Destiny against the West?

Is this the best Miami Heat team ever?

That's what you witnessed Friday night, the Heat growing from excellent to unprecedented right before your eyes.

Heat 95, Pistons 78.

Now, Miami finds itself in a magical place it has never been in 18 years of existence.

The championship round.

Eighteen years it took Miami to climb this high. Miami will play either the immensely talented Dallas team of seven-foot extraterrestrial Dirk Nowitzki or the fun-and-gun Phoenix team of two-time Most Valuable Player Steve Nash.

Beginning Thursday night, Miami will be four victories from being crowned the best basketball team in the world. Miami is hotter than any team in professional basketball, having won 10 of its last 13 playoff games after going a miserable 2-12 this season against division leaders.

There aren't a lot of ways to explain that. ''Magic'' would be one of them.

''Let's go win this [expletive],'' Antoine Walker screamed underneath that trophy, at the center of the madness. You had to read his lips.

You certainly couldn't hear him, not with so many fans thundering around him, refusing to leave this arena, refusing to let go of this feeling.

Against a very very tough team coming out of the West, THAT team just might MAKE Miami let it go.

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